Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) just launched Lynching in America – a new interactive website created in partnership with Google.This site brings together EJI’s extensive research and resulting data with the stories of lynching victims, as told by their descendants. Bryan Stevenson is the head of EJI.

There were setbacks in political rights, civil liberties, or both, in a number of countries rated “Free” by the report, including Brazil, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Tunisia, and the United States. 11th straight year of decline.

Things that Trump wants to cut that could be funded from cost of 59 Tomahawks: Emergency Refugee Assistance Fund, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, U.S. Institute of Peace, U.S. Hazard and Safety Investigation Board, National African Fund, National Wildlife Refuge, Occupational Safety and Health Administration

“We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“an extensive and pervasive pattern and practice of discriminatory and illegal credit practices across multiple lines of business within the bank, resulting in significant harm to large numbers of consumers.”

Sounds like a case for RICO prosecution; if this isn’t organized crime, what is?

The discussion of health care begins 22 minutes in (earlier is on Trump’s taxes). Highlight at 27:30: Matt Yglesias “Donald Trump has gotten a reputation for lying because he says things all the time that aren’t true. Paul Ryan has a much longer, much more dishonest record of statements…” followed by Ezra Klein “I usually defend Paul Ryan from Matt Yglesias’s slander. What Paul Ryan has said this week, its flatly indefensible.”

While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so.